Combined chain and elevator-bucket



M. A. SHEPARD.

COMBINED CHAIN AND ELEVATOR BUCKET.

No. 300,518. Patented June 17, 1884.

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MORRILL A. SHEPARD, OF LEBANON, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED CHAIN AND ELEVATOR-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,518. dated June 17, 1884.

' Application filed December 1, 1883.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MORRILL A. SHEPARD, of the city of Lebanon, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Combined Chain and Elevator-Bueket, which improvement is fully set forth in the lollowing specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top View. Fig. 2- is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

The object of this combined chain and booket is to obtain a chain that can be made in sections, so as to be readily put together or taken apart without any bolts, rivets, or openlinks, and in putting the sections of the chain to gether the eleiator-bucket is securely clasped between two of the links or sections that make up a part of the chain, thereby dispensing with the ordinary rivets or bolts usually en1-. ployed to secure the elevator-bucket to the belt or chain.

The bucket consists of a cup, a, clamped in a basket consisting of two metal frames, Z1. Each frame spreads into two bars, a, to embrace the cup, and then the frame ends in cars (Z at bottom and top, through which pass the heads 6 of the I-forrned coupling-link 6.

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the side of the hole in the ear (1 is a notch,

through which passes a stud, c of the link- ,0

head 0',- when the end of the head is being inserted, then the link is turned to its proper position in line with car (Z. The stud 6" prevents the ear from being pulled off the end of the head. on the chain, and in the event of wear of the bucket on these supports it can be turned in the cage-frame from the point of wear.

The whole chain consists of three pieces of suitable metal, (preferably malleable or wrought iron,) two out of the three being duplicates. So a whole elevator-chain would consist of a number of duplicate pieces of two kinds-na1nely, halfleages and couplingpieces.

vI claim as my invention 1. An elevatorbucket secured between two sections of the elevator-chain, substantially as described and set forth.

The bucket has central supports 2. The elevator-chain composed of sec tions, substantially as described.

' MORRTLL A. SHEPARD.

Witnesses:

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